6/21/16 Is the beginning of my Schneider career!!!
Discussion in 'Schneider' started by Waggledaddy, Jun 20, 2016.
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I did my AMT training last month. When I was walking to the meeting room I saw one of the other guys rubbing dirt and grease on his vest to make it look worn. I wish I knew before hand, I would've just traded with him. I could use a new one.
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I'm back home. Had a decent week. All up north. Most of my time spent in Wisconsin. So I had some cooler weather at night. I tried out the fan and no idling. It's a small fan pulls 26w on high. I took a bungee cord and put it on the side wall where you can open the handle to get some outside air. Worked great. Then yesterday I woke up. Did my pretrip. Went to turn the truck on and it would crank a couple times then nothing. I tried it again. Same thing. I open the battery case and check all connections and their fine. Try it again and same thing. I call SEM. They are going to send someone to jump me. Right as she's about to hang up I said let me try one more time and it started up. Weird. So I guess I've got some questions. How long should the batteries last without the truck running? I don't feel like I'm using that much. The night prior I didn't watch my TV which even though it's LED I could see using more power. Or unnecessary power. I have my TV and fan hooked to the power inverter. Then my cooler is hooked to the cig lighter at the bottom of the bed. The rest is just cig charger adapters. One at the front of truck and one near the bed in back. Unfortunately I didn't check my battery power level until after I left. A couple blocks away I remembered it. It was at 13.7 then finally got back up to 14 where it normally stays. Any ideas?
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A fan and TV shouldn't be draining your batteries. Also, those cig lighters are (theoretically) supposed to shut off when power is running low...if that is not happening, it could be a bad wiring to the starter, batteries going bad...
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Your alternator may be going but I think there's either a bad conection somewhere or corrosion. I know on my last truck I had "unusually high resistance" between the battery and the starter. Mechanics suggestion was to loosen the main connections and then tighten them down. Theory was it breaks up/changes the corrosion and or made sure the darn thing was tight. Not sure if it was a placebo thing, but seemed to work.
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I may swing in today and have them check into it. I was running low on hours and also had that training thing scheduled for Tuesday at noon. Then I'm rolling back out again.
It's a brand new truck with 55k miles on it now. Not meaning that something can't be wrong. Just that it shouldn't be. It's sounding like one of those intermittent issues though. Hopefully they will be able to find something rather than being stranded somewhere.
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